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Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games
by SXSW
March 12, 2016

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Gaming experts to discuss online harassment in gaming and geek culture, how to combat it, how to design against it and how to create online communities that are moving away from harassment. The panel’s topics will specifically center around research data, UI development and UX design to report and stymie online abuse.

Hashtags: #sxsw #OnlineHarassment

PRESENTERS

Caroline Sinders
DESIGN RESEARCHER
IBM Watson

Caroline Sinders is an interaction designer for IBM Watson, artist, researcher and video game designer. She was born in New Orleans and is currently based in Brooklyn. She received her masters from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program where she focused on HCI, prototyping, and interactive storytelling. She holds a bachelor of fine arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in Photography and Imaging, where she studied digital culture and large format portraiture. Caroline is a member of the Code Liberation Foundation's board, as well as a teacher for the foundation. Her current personal work explores UX and UI to stymy harassment and 'designing consent' into system designs and communication design for social networking sites.

Her work has been featured in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Style.com, Bust Magazine, Animal NY, Narratively, The Verge, Washington Post, New York Magazine, and other places.



Kami Huyse
CEO & FOUNDER
Civilination

Kami Watson Huyse is a digital strategist, speaker and author. She is the CEO and founder of Zoetica, a digital marketing and public relations agency, and is accredited in public relations. Zoetica has helped hundreds of organizations and companies connect with their customers online, build community, and drive measurable business results. She is the architect of many award-winning marketing programs and has earned two Society for New Communications Research Social Media awards and IABC's Gold Quill of Excellence Award for her work.

She speaks over a dozen times a year at events and conferences across the country on the subjects of social media measurement, influence, strategy and online civility. She is the author of How to Use Social Media, Win Business and Find Influencers and is a contributor to Welcome to the Fifth Estate and the textbook Public Relations Writing: Form and Style. She was the technical editor for Civility in the Digital Age. She has also been a columnist for PRNews, an industry trade magazine, as writes regularly on her blog, Zoetica Talks.

She was named PR Professional of the Year in San Antonio, was recognized for a Social Media award by the Austin-American Statesman, has been named one of the 100 most powerful Women on Twitter by Twitter Grader, one of the 30 top people to follow in PR on Twitter by e-Releases, one of AG Beat's Top 50 Influencers, is a Top 100 Power Influencer in Houston, is one of Cision’s Top 50 Rich Social Media Influencers to Follow, and one of Likeable’s 150 Great Marketers to Follow. She is also the founder of the Social Media Breakfast of Houston (#SMBHOU). Contact her on Twitter @kamichat or via email at kami@zoeticamedia.com.



Katherine Cross
LECTURER/GRADUATE STUDENT
Cuny Graduate Center

Randi Harper
FOUNDER
Online Abuse Prevention Initiative

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Women in the Media and Online Harassment
by SXSW
March 12, 2016

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Women with careers in media are often the target of online harassment that ultimately impacts their careers. Hear from women leaders in activism, journalism and tech as they discuss the unique position women with high profile jobs face online and share their own experiences of online hate for simply doing their job.

Hashtags: #sxsw #OnlineHarassment

PRESENTERS



Jamia Wilson
EXEC DIR
Women Action and the Media

"Jamia Wilson is many things: An activist. A feminist. A storyteller. A mediamaker. But more than anything, she is a natural-born thought leader. As Executive Director of Women, Action, & the Media, the former YTH Executive Director, TED Prize Storyteller, and former VP of Programs at The Women’s Media Center, Jamia has been a powerful force in the social justice movement for nearly a decade. As a leading voice on feminist and women’s rights issues, her work and words have appeared in and on several outlets such as New York Magazine, The Today Show, and The Washington Post. She’s also a staff writer for Rookie and has contributed to several books such as Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, & I Still Believe Anita Hill. But what we’re most excited about is her own book that she’s currently writing about Beyonce and feminism. (Yes, really.) It’s no surprise she was named in Refinery29’s “17 Faces of the Future of Feminism.”

It may be true that Jamia has spoken alongside feminist greats like Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda, but we think they’re also lucky to have been alongside her. A true next generation leader, she has graced the stage at events such as TED Women, Netroots Nation, and Facing Race, and travels across the U.S. and beyond to college campuses to talk about race, feminism, spirituality, leadership, and so much more."-Fresh Speakers

Meredith Walker
CO-FOUNDER
Smart Girls at the Party



Soraya Chemaly
DIR
Women's Media Center

Wendy Davis
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR TEXAS GOVERNOR
State Senator

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Why Does Hate Thrive Online?
by SXSW
March 12, 2016

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A panel consisting of researchers, professors and experts to discuss research based studies involving online harassment and the fundamentals of online hate including, but not limited to, its terminology, instigators, targets, methods, and why online hate can be more dangerous than hate that originates offline.

Hashtags: #sxsw #OnlineHarassment

PRESENTERS



Andrea Weckerle
FOUNDER
Civilination

Andrea Weckerle is the founder of CiviliNation and the author of the book "Civility in the Digital Age: How Companies and People Can Triumph over Haters, Trolls, Bullies, and Other Jerks." She earned her Juris Doctor at T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, where she also served on the Senior Staff of the Richmond Journal of Law & Technology, the first exclusively online law journal in the U.S. In addition to her law degree, she underwent extensive mediation training, earning certificates in Commercial Mediation and Conflict Resolution Processes.



Joanne St Lewis
PROFESSOR
University of Ottawa

My motto, justice is made flesh by what we do, inspires my teaching, consulting, training and activism. I am currently teaching courses in public law, digital defamation and counter-terrorism. I am also a lecturer in the USC CREATE Homeland Security Centre of Excellence, Executive Program on Counter-Terrorism.

I am the first Black woman to sit on the Law Society of Upper Canada--the governing body for 47,000 lawyers in Ontario, Canada--in its 218 year history.

In June of 2014, I was the successful plaintiff in a case of malicious online defamation that has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada.

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."



Maeve Duggan
RESEARCH ASSOC
Pew Research Center

Maeve Duggan is a Research Associate at Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Her work applies public opinion methods to explore how the internet and technology shape our society. She is the author of a nationally-representative survey of internet users on the prevalence and patterns of online harassment.



Susan Benesch
DIR OF DANGEROUS SPEECH PROJECT
Berkman Center For Internet And Society

Susan is Faculty Associate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She founded the Dangerous Speech Project, to study speech that inspires intergroup violence - and to find ways to prevent this *without* infringing on freedom of expression - and she does research on how to counter hateful and harmful speech online.

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Combating Online Hate with Compassion
by SXSW
March 12, 2016

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Is there something beyond the recursive loop of hate online? This session will define the factors that sustain online violence and explore practical steps to end it. For some, examining those elements -- emotional distance, the rationale, and the predictable fight or flight responses -- may lead to creative and practical ways to understand online aggressors in ways that go beyond the hatred.

Hashtags: #sxsw #OnlineHarassment

PRESENTERS



Dr David Pulsipher
PROFESSOR
Brigham Young University

David Pulsipher is a professor of history. His research explores nonviolent solutions to violent problems, and he a regular speaker (including at TEDx) on principles of strong yet compassionate resistance. He is the author of "When We Don’t See Eye to Eye: Using the Weapon of Love to Overcome Anger and Aggression" and has been a Fulbright Scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, India.



Elly van Laar
MEDIATION COACHING
Elly van Laar Coaching

Elly van Laar, empathy coach, mediator and facilitator, has 20 plus years of experience in working with individuals and organizations. She combines two areas for growth: (1) personal and professional effectiveness, and (2) compassion and collaboration. She helps expand and enhance relationships, bridge differences and collaborate around conflict.

She specifically likes to guide others through the process of change in perception and attitude, exploring behavior, and clarifying communication.

She is trained in Nonviolent Communication, and has a personal practice in Plum Village mindfulness. She has a Masters degree in Political Science, from Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Connect with Elly: @EllyvanLaar



Sunni Pavlovic
STUDIO MGR
thatgamecompany

Sunni Pavlovic is the studio manager of thatgamecompany and oversees the day-to-day running of the development team and business growth. The studio is best known for its multi-award winning titles such as Journey, Flower and flOw for PlayStation 4. As a spokesperson for the firm at conferences and in the media, she advocates interactive entertainment as a prominent new medium to connect, inspire and share positive emotion around the world.

Sunni has spoken at Game Developers Conference, Digital Hollywood, Resonate New Media Festival, Munich Filmfest among others, and has been interviewed and quoted by Variety, Forbes, VentureBeat, The Verge, Polygon and Gamasutra. Most recently she was honored by Digital LA in their “Top 50 Digital Women” 2015 list, and was a jury member for the 2015 International Mobile Gaming Awards.



Terese Wier
COMPASSION ADVOCATE/LEADER
Terese Wier Change Agent

Terese Wier is a compassion advocate and leader. She works closely with people to solve business, civic, social and interpersonal issues with compassion as a unifying principle. Terese's career began with Accenture after which she ran her own project management consulting firm and worked with clients from all industry sectors. In addition to leading compassion-centered projects, Terese works as an on-call hospital chaplain with St. David's South Austin Medical Center where she cares for patients and their families.

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